"Banks are coming back" into the restaurant M&A game, declared Roger Matthews, who heads up retail investment banking at BofA Securities, after sitting out since March when pandemic-related lockdowns began. Expert panelists discussed the restaurant deal-making outlook for 2021 on the first day of Restaurant Finance Week, presented by Franchise Times and the Restaurant Finance Monitor.
Greg Flynn told Franchise Times there were many things that made his Arby's acquisition a good deal, but five key things made the large, complex deal worth taking on.
It's hard to find new ways to say just how hot the restaurant M&A market is.
In winter of 2000, I was putting Panera on a path to being one of the most expensive restaurant acquisitions in history by a group of highly caffeinated Luxembourgers.
Private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners bought Checkers & Rally's Restaurant Inc from Sentinel Capital Partners for $525 million.
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With sous vide cooking used for its food preparation, eliminating the need for typical restaurant kitchen prep and venting equipment, Taffer's Tavern is attracting franchisees to multi-unit deals, the latest being Marc Magerman and Peter Weber, who signed on to bring five locations to the Boston area.
